What business would you start?
Dec 30th 2009, 4:54 pm
#31
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Re: What business would you start?
Is your friend in a cold state or California? A friend of mine built an indoor soccer facility here in NE Indiana back in 1998. The place is jumping all months of the year between winter/summer leagues and soccer, flag football, in line skating/hockey and even roller derby 
The cold winter here ensures there are plenty folk looking for indoor recreation from October thru March.
I guess it is good to go with something you either have a passion for or peddle a product/service you like.
I wish Trader Joe's would offer a franchise. I reckon they'd make a fortune in my neck of the woods!
The cold winter here ensures there are plenty folk looking for indoor recreation from October thru March.
I guess it is good to go with something you either have a passion for or peddle a product/service you like.
I wish Trader Joe's would offer a franchise. I reckon they'd make a fortune in my neck of the woods!
Dec 30th 2009, 5:01 pm
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Re: What business would you start?
They're all lazy bastards round our way and I reckon a youngster could make some serious money, and if all goes tits-up then what've you lost?
Dec 30th 2009, 6:08 pm
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Dec 30th 2009, 7:49 pm
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Re: What business would you start?
I think she should get a small vineyard and offere B&B and wine tasting weekends.
Dec 30th 2009, 9:18 pm
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Re: What business would you start?
it's just one pasty fat German you've got to track down and send a personal letter to...easier said than done, but better than an email...
Jan 1st 2010, 6:39 pm
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Jan 2nd 2010, 6:53 am
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Jan 2nd 2010, 11:46 am
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Re: What business would you start?
I can never really tell if you intend to be as snide as you sound Rete... at least I telegraph it when I'm being an asshole.
I run the business side of the business. PR, advertising, accounting and general cheer-leading.
As for "lucking out" on the contest, I don't see where "luck" was involved. Do you put it down to "luck" when you get a promotion at work?
I run the business side of the business. PR, advertising, accounting and general cheer-leading.
As for "lucking out" on the contest, I don't see where "luck" was involved. Do you put it down to "luck" when you get a promotion at work?
Jan 2nd 2010, 12:47 pm
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Re: What business would you start?
Mrs tonrob works in the hospitality industry so another of our one-day maybe's is to run a B&B (but maybe back in Europe instead). Of course my next thought was to make it a special B&B that catered for beer nuts. She would deal with the B&B bit and I would run the brewery tours which I'd sell packaged with the accommodation. We never did get as far enough into the detail to work out who would clean the sick out of the carpets though...
Other things I'd do:
- start my own tourist railway (full-size trainset, the ultimate boy's toy)
- run an eBay business so the only time I'd ever have to change out of my pyjamas would be to run to the post office
- start a travel agency that specialized in custom-made tours for people who couldn't be arsed arranging it themselves
- open up the world's first sprout restaurant
Jan 2nd 2010, 3:19 pm
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Re: What business would you start?
Jan 2nd 2010, 6:58 pm
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Jan 2nd 2010, 8:36 pm
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Re: What business would you start?
What a shitty thing to say! It takes talent, not luck, to be an artist that inspires people enough that they purchase your works. This is why my last artistic masterpiece has been on my mums fridge for 30 years rather than in a gallery. (If anyone's interested, it was "Stick Man Meets the Big Round Things" [by a 6 year old Titchski, using a potato cut out on card] )
What happened to all your "stick"posts. They were good, showed off your immense talent mate
Jan 2nd 2010, 8:45 pm
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Re: What business would you start?
Sex shop.